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Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella is a technology executive who has served as Microsoft's chief executive officer since February 2014 and as its board chair since June 2021. Microsoft's July 2026 annual filing lists him as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

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Mitchell Elegbe

Mitchell Elegbe is a Nigerian fintech entrepreneur and business executive identified by Interswitch Group and EY as a founder of Interswitch and its Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. EY states that he has led the digital-payments company since 2002.

Christopher Musa

Christopher Gwabin Musa

Christopher Gwabin Musa is a retired Nigerian Army general serving as Nigeria's Minister of Defence. He previously served as Chief of Defence Staff and held senior commands associated with military operations in north-east Nigeria and the Lake Chad region.

George Elombi

Dr. George Elombi

George Elombi is a Cameroonian legal and banking executive who has served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export-Import Bank since October 2025. He joined Afreximbank in 1996 and advanced through its legal, governance and corporate-services…

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum is a Congolese physician, microbiologist and virologist known for Ebola outbreak investigation, therapeutic research and public-health leadership. Institutional sources identify him as Director General of the Institut National de Recherche…

Dimie Ogoina

Dimie Ogoina is a Nigerian infectious-disease physician, physician-scientist and academic administrator known for clinical research and outbreak-response work on mpox. He is Vice-Chancellor of Bayelsa Medical University and was elected chair of the World Health Organization's…

Femi Otedola

Olufemi Peter Otedola

Olufemi Peter Otedola, commonly known as Femi Otedola, is a Nigerian businessman and Group Chairman of First HoldCo Plc. His career has included leadership and investment activity in Nigeria's downstream oil-and-gas and power sectors, notably through African Petroleum and Forte…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. is an American environmental attorney and public official who became the 26th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services in February 2025. His public career has included environmental advocacy, leadership of Children's Health Defense and an…

Christopher Piwuna

Christopher Goson Piwuna

Christopher Goson Piwuna is a Nigerian professor of medicine, consultant psychiatrist and academic union leader. He was elected president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in May 2025 and remained listed as president on the union's official website in August 2026.

Jide Idris

Dr. Olajide "Jide" Idris

Dr. Olajide "Jide" Idris is a Nigerian physician and public-health administrator who, as of 2026-08-22, serves as Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. His earlier public service included senior health roles in Lagos State and leadership of…

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Matthew Hassan Kukah

Matthew Hassan Kukah is a Nigerian Roman Catholic bishop who has served as Bishop of Sokoto since 2011. He is also known for work in public reform bodies, peacebuilding, interfaith dialogue, human rights, and commentary on religion, politics, governance, and public policy.

Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is a technology entrepreneur who leads Tesla and SpaceX and has held leadership roles in xAI. He has been Tesla's chief executive officer since 2008 and is SpaceX's founder and chief executive officer. SpaceX acquired xAI, including X, in February 2026, although…

Karl Toriola

Karl Olutokun Toriola

Karl Olutokun Toriola is a Nigerian telecommunications executive and the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria. He became chief executive on 1 March 2021 after holding technical and regional leadership positions across MTN's African operations.

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Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind and leads Google DeepMind as chief executive officer. His leadership in AlphaFold's protein-structure-prediction research was recognised with a share of the 2024 Nobel Prize…

Assimi Goïta

Assimi Goïta is a Malian Army officer who led the military junta formed after the August 2020 overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. He became President of the Transition and Head of State in May 2021 and continued to be identified in that role by Malian official…

William Ruto

William Samoei Ruto

William Samoei Ruto is a Kenyan politician who has served as President of the Republic of Kenya since September 2022. His national political career has also included service as Deputy President, Member of Parliament for Eldoret North and a cabinet minister.

Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham is a British Labour politician who, as of 22 August 2026, serves as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Labour leader and MP for Makerfield. His earlier public career included senior government and opposition posts and three terms as Mayor of Greater Manchester.

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Kashim Shettima

Kashim Shettima Mustapha

Kashim Shettima Mustapha is a Nigerian politician and agricultural economist who has served as vice president of Nigeria since May 2023. His earlier public career included two terms as governor of Borno State and election to the Senate for Borno Central, following work in…

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Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is a Nigerian politician who served as president from 2010 to 2015. He is particularly associated with Nigeria's 2015 democratic transfer of power and has since undertaken election-observation, mediation and democratic-governance work in Africa.

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Nyesom Wike

Ezenwo Nyesom Wike

Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, commonly known as Nyesom Wike, is a Nigerian politician and lawyer serving as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. His public career has included service as Governor of Rivers State, Chief of Staff to the Rivers State governor and Minister of State for…

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Wamkele Mene

Wamkele Keabetswe Mene

Wamkele Keabetswe Mene is a South African trade diplomat and public official who became the inaugural Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat in 2020. The African Union reappointed him in February 2024 for a second and final four-year term, and…

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Salim Abdool Karim

Salim S. Abdool Karim

Salim S. Abdool Karim is a South African clinical infectious-diseases epidemiologist, Director and Co-Founder of CAPRISA, and global-health professor known for research on HIV prevention and treatment, tuberculosis-HIV coinfection, and infectious diseases. His public roles have…

Nnimmo Bassey

Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian environmental and human-rights advocate, architect, author and poet. His public work has focused on the effects of oil extraction in the Niger Delta and on environmental and climate justice, including through Environmental Rights Action/Friends of…

Mike Adenuga

Mike Adeniyi Adenuga Jr.

Mike Adeniyi Adenuga Jr. is a Nigerian businessman known for his work in telecommunications and oil and gas. He founded Globacom and Conoil Producing and was identified in 2026 sources as chairman of Globacom and Conoil Plc.